Email Letter & Pics - October 8, 2014

(Dad's note: Quin flew to the DR one year ago today!)

Hey everyone so this week was awesome. And very crazy. So really the craziest thing was conference, and this is why. So Saturday morning we had to go fill up the baptismal font because we had a baptism in between the afternoon and priesthood sessions. So we did that and then we got everything ready so that we could watch everything in English but once its time to start it doesn’t work... so we go running out and take a taxi to a members house so we can watch it there and that was all good for the first 2 sessions on Saturday. We went back and had the best baptism ever and the boy, Jordi, bears his testimony afterwards and everyone is just crying because he talked about how is mom was killed and then he was able to find the church because of that and how he knows he’ll see her again someday. Just amazing. Then we go back to the member’s house to watch the priesthood session and it went well until the first presidency is about to talk and the Wi-Fi cuts out. And then the same thing happens for the Sunday morning session. But whatever, cause we got permission to watch it in the mission office on Monday but it was really frustrating at the moment. But it was so great being able to hear the prophet speak at last on Monday. My favorite talks were Sister Esplin and Elder Callister, and then President Eyring from the priesthood session. 

But I love you all and hope your week is a great one.

- Elder King

Email Letter - October 1, 2014

Hey everyone,

So this week has been really good. Elder Rodriguez and I have been working hard to find new people and hadn’t been having much success, but last week the church offices in Salt Lake sent us a list of references. Now this is not weird but usually missionaries, in the DR at least, just ignore them and keep doing their own thing, but this time I was looking at the list and felt a really strong impression that at least one of these people needed me, so almost immediately I began calling the numbers listed and this one guy named Roldof answered and told us to come over the next day. Well it took us almost an hour to find his house but we eventually found it. And oh boy is he awesome and he also has a girlfriend that is super cool too. It just seemed like they both have been pretty prepared. I’m really excited to see how things go with them. We´re still trying to get a hold of the other people on the list but a lot of them have moved and we just haven’t gotten ahold of the others, but I’m not giving up yet ha-ha.

Another really cool thing that happened was that last Saturday I was able to go back and visit Navarrete, because 3 girls that I had taught were baptized and one of them wanted me to baptize her. So that was great getting to go back for a day and visit people and participate in such a special baptismal program.

But that’s it for this week and I just want you all to know that I love you and you’re all in my prayers.

-Elder King